One scan in · A repaired print out · No Photoshop needed
Upload one scan of a damaged print and repair it free online — creases, scratches, tears and fading gone, every face left exactly as it was.
A real repair run on this page’s model — a 1960s family snapshot with a deep crease, scratches, torn corners and heavy yellowing. Drag the divider and watch what does not move: four faces, four poses, the house, the path. Only the damage goes. Every output is AI-generated, so your result varies with your scan and the damage on it — treat this as a guide to what the tool can do, not a fixed result you will get back exactly.
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This is different from sharpening. A blurry digital snapshot needs detail invented; a damaged print already has the picture, it just has a crease across the middle, white scratch lines, chipped corners, brown foxing stains, and the yellow-orange cast that decades of light left behind. Those come off. The picture itself is left completely alone.
Traditionally the work meant hours in Photoshop with the clone-stamp and healing brush, layer by layer, or paying a retoucher forty dollars and waiting a week per image.
Here you upload the scan, the model reads which marks are damage and which are the photograph, and it rebuilds only the damaged parts in one pass. On Kavel it runs on the Nano Banana image model, so a repaired print comes back in seconds rather than days. Start from your scan — the flow defaults to image-to-image — set the format and resolution, and the credit estimate updates before you commit; a failed run is refunded automatically (unless it broke the content policy).
The rule the tool follows matters more than the speed: your grandmother's face must come back as her face. Restoration that quietly redraws a jawline or smooths a smile has not restored anything, it has replaced it, and for the pictures people care about that is worse than leaving the crease alone. If your scan is intact but soft or low-resolution, the HD photo converter is the better fit — that tool recovers sharpness, this one repairs damage.
Photograph or scan the print flat and evenly lit and the model has the most of the original to work from.
Creative engine
Upload a scan, confirm what needs repairing, choose the format and resolution, and the credit estimate updates before you generate.
Removes creases, scratches, tears, dust, foxing stains and missing emulsion — physical damage, not softness.
Corrects the yellow-brown cast of aged prints back to natural skin tones and recovers contrast in faded areas.
Leaves faces, poses, clothing and composition untouched, so the repaired print is the same moment, undamaged. Old photo damage and softness are different problems: the HD photo converter sharpens a picture that is intact but blurry, and the model comparison shows how the two engines behind old photo work differ on one prompt.
From a creased scan to a clean print, with the cost shown before you commit.
Lay the print flat under even light and capture the whole frame. A straight, evenly lit scan gives the model the most of the original to work from — avoid angled phone shots with glare across the surface.
Name the damage you can see — a crease down the centre, water stains in one corner, a missing edge, colour that has gone orange. Specific direction repairs more than a generic request.
Confirm the estimate, generate the repair, and download at full resolution for printing. If a run fails it is refunded (unless it broke the content policy), so a second attempt with clearer direction costs nothing.
Family archives, house clearances, a single surviving photo of someone.
Bring a box of creased, faded prints of parents and grandparents back to something you can share with relatives or print again for the wall.
Repair the one surviving picture of someone who has passed, so the version the family keeps is not the damaged one.
Clean up scans for a family tree, a heritage project, or an archive where the damage is getting in the way of the record.
Common questions about repairing damaged and faded prints with Kavel.
No, and the difference matters. Sharpening invents detail that a soft digital file never captured. This repairs damage on a print that was fine when it was taken — creases, scratches, tears, stains, fading. If your scan is undamaged but soft or low-resolution, use the HD photo converter instead; it is built for that job.
It should not, and that is the rule the tool works to. Faces, expressions, poses, clothing and background are left as they are; only the damage is rebuilt. If a repair does come back with a face that looks subtly different, retry and say explicitly to keep the faces unchanged — a failed or unwanted run takes seconds to redo.
No. This runs entirely in the browser with free credits to start, so there is no clone-stamp work, no layer masks and nothing to install. That is the main reason people arrive here after searching for a Photoshop tutorial — the manual method works, it just takes hours per image.
Creases, scratches, dust, foxing, torn corners, water stains and heavy colour fading all repair well. Where a large area of the picture is physically missing — a face torn away entirely — the model has to invent what was there, and inventing a face is exactly what you do not want. Crop to what survives instead.
Repair and colourisation are separate jobs. This tool restores what the print originally held, including recovering colour that has faded away. Adding colour that was never captured is a different request and a different result; ask for it explicitly if that is what you want.
Flat, square to the camera or scanner, evenly lit, and framed to include the whole print including its border. Glare across the surface and a steep angle both cost the model information it cannot recover. A flatbed scan beats a phone photo, but a careful phone photo works.
The credit estimate appears before you generate and updates with the format and resolution you pick, so you always see the cost first. Failed runs are refunded automatically (unless it broke the content policy). New accounts start with free credits, which is enough to repair a print and judge the result before spending anything.
Yes — reprinting for a frame or a family album is one of the most common uses. Generate at the highest resolution available so the file holds up at print size, and keep your original scan; the repair is a new file, not a replacement for the archive copy.
One credit pool covers Nano Banana images and Seedance and Veo video. The cost shows before every run, and failed jobs are not charged. Use a subscription for ongoing work, or a one-time pack when you just need to top up.
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Use one balance across every supported image and video model — eleven of them today, listed below — and check the credit cost before each request.
Video models
Image models
Model credit guide
You're only charged for successful generations. The exact estimate in the generator varies by model, length, resolution, audio, and number of images.
| Type | Model | Credit cost |
|---|---|---|
| Video | Seedance 2.5 | The long-take tier, priced per second: 5s 480p ≈ 211 credits, 5s 720p ≈ 473. A full 30s take runs ≈ 1,260 at 480p and ≈ 2,835 at 720p. Supplying a reference clip lowers the per-second rate. |
| Video | Seedance 2.0 | 5s 720p image-to-video ≈ 188 credits; text-to-video ≈ 308 credits. Scales with resolution and length. |
| Video | Seedance 2 Fast | Faster and lower cost. 5s 720p text-to-video ≈ 248 credits. |
| Video | Seedance 2 Mini | The cheapest Seedance tier. 5s 720p ≈ 154 credits, 5s 480p ≈ 72 credits. |
| Video | Seedance 1.5 Pro | Audio doubles the rate. 5s 720p ≈ 27 credits silent, ≈ 53 with audio; 1080p ≈ 57 and ≈ 113. |
| Video | Veo 3.1 | Billed per video, not per second (Lite tier). About 45 credits at 720p and 53 at 1080p. |
| Video | Kling 3.0 | Audio raises the rate. 5s 720p ≈ 105 credits silent, ≈ 150 with audio; 1080p ≈ 135 and ≈ 203. |
| Video | MiniMax H3 | Fixed 2K, no resolution ladder. Priced per second — a 5s clip ≈ 158 credits. |
| Image | Nano Banana 2 | Generate or edit from text and images. About 8 credits per 1K image, 12 at 2K, 18 at 4K. |
| Image | Nano Banana Pro | Consistent run times across generations. About 12 credits per 1K or 2K image, 21 at 4K. |
| Image | Nano Banana 2 Lite | Faster, simpler variant. A flat 8 credits per image at every resolution. Start here to test. |
| Image | GPT Image 2 | The lowest-cost image model here. About 3 credits per 1K image, 6 at 2K, 12 at 4K. |
| Image | Seedream 5.0 Lite | Flat pricing — about 8 credits per image whether you generate or edit. |
Other ways to fix and finish a picture, and the model behind the edit.
The creases and stains come off; the faces are left exactly as they were. That second part is the one to check.
A real edit made with this tool — drag your own photo in on the left, the prompt is already written, then press Generate.
